feedlot
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6.3
- noun
- /ˈfiːdˌlɒt/
- Specialized
:
corrales de engorde
- Runoff water from the feedlots is collected in lagoons.
- cattle feedlot
- beef cattle feedlots
- feedlot operation
Even cattle ranchers are not excited about shipping their cattle to feedlots.
- Even cattle ranchers are not excited about shipping their cattle to feedlots.
Examples
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Other sources include waste dumps, animal feedlots, and defective septic systems.
Academic text (1997) -
The rest are about evenly split between dairy and beef cattle on feedlots.
Academic text (1995) -
There is an effort in several farm states to make it illegal to publish a photo of any industrial food operation, any feedlot operation.
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The cattle feedlot operators are filling their lots, most operations running between 100 and 1,000 head.
Academic text (1999) -
The Lincoln researchers have tested various timetables for cleaning feedlot areas where animal waste builds up.
Academic text (1994) -
In many other countries, the cattle are kept in feedlots and fed grains, rather than grass.
Blog text (10) -
Farmers and feedlot managers already do many things to control losses of nutrients and pollutants from manure.
Academic text (2002) -
Irrigation made corn production possible locally, and the corn led to the development of large feedlots.
Academic text (2004) -
The southern bluefin tuna feedlot industry grew rapidly to become South Australia's number-one export industry.
Academic text (2002) -
Farmers often send their cattle to a feedlot to increase their weight before selling them.
Synonyms
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5.3
An enclosure for keeping farm animals like cattle or horses
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6.3
A fenced area where people keep animals like cows and sheep before transport or slaughter
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2.1
A small fenced area where pigs live
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3.1
A small fenced area where farmers keep animals before moving them
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2.1
An enclosure for keeping cattle like cows and bulls
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5.1
A fenced area where animals like sheep wait briefly before someone moves them
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1.6
A fenced area where farmers keep cows
An outdoor area where farmers keep and feed animals when they cannot graze
An enclosed area where farmers keep animals for a short time before moving them
A fenced area where pigs are kept
How Intensive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word feedlot is made from feed and lot, where lot means a 'piece of land' like in 'parking lot'. So a feedlot is simply a place where animals are kept and fed to get fat before they are sold.